Hey there, I’m
Akash Hamirwasia.

I build innovative products on the web keeping design in mind. I’m currently in my final year of undergrad in Computer Science and Engineering.

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About Me

Hi! I’m Akash, a creative 21-year-old who loves building products with code.

I have always been curious about how things work since my childhood. This curiosity is what sparked in me to try writing a script to automate a repetitive task while creating 3D graphics in software called Blender. That’s when I learned Python - to automate tasks for saving time, which made me feel like a superhero!

Since then, I have been working on improving my skills in Web development. I decided to dip my feet in web development because I wanted to build products that were easily accessible to anyone on any device. It always motivates me when I hear how my project helped someone solve their problem.

Right now, I am in my final year at PES University doing an undergrad in Computer Science and Engineering. I can’t stop talking about front-end development and user interface design these days!

Experience

Software Engineering Intern @ Akamai Technologies
May 2021 — July 2021
Frontend Engineering Intern @ smallcase
May 2020 — August 2020
Project Intern @ PES Innovation Lab
June 2019 — July 2019

My Skills

I constantly learn new and exciting concepts in computer science and web development. I try applying these concepts to solve real-world problems. Few technologies I enjoy working with:

JavaScript ES6+
HTML, CSS
React
Vue
Node.js
Python
Git
Firebase

My Projects

Blaze

1282 on GitHub

A peer-to-peer file-sharing web app I built to solve a problem I faced while transferring files from my phone to my laptop without having to upload files to a cloud account or download specific file-sharing apps.

Blaze became the #1 Product of the day on Product Hunt and gets about 900 weekly views. DigitalOcean is sponsoring the infrastructure for this project. Technologies I learned while building Blaze:

Preact
WebSockets
WebTorrent
Express
Docker
DigitalOcean

Live Project GitHub

Pigmnts

26 on GitHub

A color palette generator from an image I built to learn the Rust programming language. Building Pigmnts also introduced me to various clustering algorithms and how WebAssembly works at a fundamental level.

Pigmnts is available both as a CLI tool and a library for Rust and JavaScript using WebAssembly. It is being used by Turtlewig and UnPalette in their products.

Rust
Web Assembly
CLI development
K-Means++

GitHub

UnTab

234 on GitHub

A productivity tool I built to manage a lot of tabs open on our browser. UnTab provides a beautiful search interface to search tabs, bookmarks, history and also perform quick actions with just a few keystrokes.

I built UnTab in the FOSS Hack 2020 and it was one of the winning projects. UnTab is available as an extension for both Chrome and Firefox. UnTab has a powerful themes and plugins API that makes it possible for anyone to extend UnTab’s feature set.

Svelte
Fuse.js
Rollup
Browser Extension
Framer Motion
Tailwind CSS

Live Project GitHub

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Talks & Workshops

I conduct talks and workshops to share my experience in different fields with the community and network with like-minded peers. This quote keeps me going — “The best way to learn is to teach”.

Hacknight 2.0

Online — October 28, 2020

What Open Source maintainers expect from contributors

inGenius Prep series

Online — September 8, 2020

Frontend development - React 101

Techwarts Appsprint

Online — July 25, 2020

Creating Visual magic with Figma

Google DSC PESIT

Online — May 22, 2020

ML in your browser using TensorFlow.js

Blog

I document my learnings from building projects on my blog with the hope that it will help fellow curious developers like me. Though it takes time to write these blogs, I always come out with more understanding of the topic than I originally started with.

December 23, 2021

Building highlighted input field in React.js